Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment. Now He Wants to Destroy Europe's.

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment. Now He Wants to Destroy Europe’s.

By JASON HOROWITZ MARCH 9, 2018

MILAN — Stephen K. Bannon leaned back in an armchair opposite a copy of a painting by an Italian old master and explained his modest efforts to build a vast network of European populists to demolish the Continent’s political establishment.

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Only months ago, Mr. Bannon was forced out of the White House and Breitbart News, the alt-right news empire he helped make into a political force, for the sharp criticisms of President Trump’s children attributed to him in a book. “He’s lost his mind,” Mr. Trump said at the time.

But now Mr. Bannon, the architect of Mr. Trump’s populist campaign message and the president’s former chief strategist, has returned with an international mission.

On Saturday, he is set to headline the annual conference of France’s far-right National Front in the northern city of Lille, where he will be introduced by its leader, Marine Le Pen. People with knowledge of Mr. Bannon’s itinerary suggested that he might meet later in the weekend with the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, but Mr. Bannon declined to say whether or not he would, only saying that he admired Mr. Orban as a “hero” and “the most significant guy on the scene right now.”

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/world/europe/horowitz-europe-populism.html

[democratisphere]

1. Madman.

A cog in the drumpfian American destruction machine won't be happy till he attempts to destroy the world.

[lauren_93]

2. Re: Bannon

We are heading into a new dark period, where enlightened, optimistic, humane, tolerant and respectful attitudes towards our fellow human beings is replaced by Trump style vicious, vacuous, misanthropic, false and tribal hate. Italy is following where Britain, Austria and USA have led. However, at the same time, you should be careful with ''the establishment''. It's their old, failing policies that caused people to fall for Bannon-style propaganda.

[gopiscrap]

3. welcome to DU

[magicarpet]

4. Bannon had his soapboxes unceremoniously ripped...

..... out from under him here in America. As more and.more facts become known about Cambridge Analytica - Mueller is going to light Bannon's ass of fire. Bannon hopes to keep a safe distance from Muller.

So for the time being Bannon will set up shop in Europe and sell his Fascist Alt-Rite Nazi bullshit over there. If he is a good Nazi boy Daddy and Becka Mercer may offer some quiet funding for Bannon's satellite European Nazi - Alt-Democracy - Anti-Establishment Operation.